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A regularly-scheduled Los Angeles Airways Sikorsky helicopter flying from Disneyland, California, to Los Angeles International Airport disintegrated in flight last night (May 22) and crashed in a cow corral.

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A regularly-scheduled Los Angeles Airways Sikorsky helicopter flying from Disneyland, California, to Los Angeles International Airport disintegrated in flight last night (May 22) and crashed in a cow corral. All twenty-three persons aboard were killed.

Investigators collected debris and bodies strewn over an area of one half mile in Paramount, California.

A federal Aviation spokesman said the helicopter crash was the worst in the history of Western states in terms of lives lost.

The twin-engine Sikorsky was ferrying twenty passengers and three crewmen from the Anaheim Airport, two blocks from the Disneyland complex, to International Airport when it "seemed to come apart in mid-air," according to witnesses.